A.M. Roundup

Good morning. To clear up something we’ve been getting calls on: Daniel O’Donnell is an Irish singer coming to the Times Union Center Monday afternoon; Danny O’Donnell is an Assemblyman, and will not appear in Albany until probably September; Rosie O’Donnell, his sister, plays Proctors on Tuesday.

More news after the jump.Lake Placid businessman Doug Hoffman is likely to get the Conservative Party nomination for John McHugh’s seat.

A great New Yorker, Budd Schulberg, has died at age 95. Best remembered as the screenwriter for “On the Waterfront,” Schulberg also penned the scathing and still timely media critique “A Face in the Crowd,” starring Andy Griffith as a hayseed fascist TV personality.

In national news:

A health care package is taking shape in the Senate, and it doesn’t include a public option.